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Patented Aug. 1, 1854.

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Self Loading and Dumping Cart. No. 11.442. Patented Aug. 1 1854.

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Seif Lbading and Dumping Cart.

No. 11,442. Patented Aug. 1, 1854.

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To all whom it mag concern:

- UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SANFORD STONE, or KIRKERsVILLE, OHIO.

SELF LOADING AND DUMPIN G CART.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 11,442, dated August 1, 1854.

Be it known that I, SANFORD STONE, of

Kirkersville,in the county of Licking and State of Ohio, haveinvented a new and 1111- proved SelfrLoading and Self-Dumping Cart; and Ido hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specification, Figurel being a side elevation of the cart;

Fig. 2, a longitudinalvertical section thereof through the center; Fig. 3, a plan ofthe same; Fig. 4;, a Vertical section in the line a: m of Fig. 3, showing the respective positions of the cart-body and otherparts when loadingand dumping, and Fig. 5 a similar View showing the position of those parts when in the act of drawing the cart from place to place.

Like letters designate corresponding parts in all the figures.

The nature of my invention consists, first,

in arranging the cart body with a scraper on its fore end and so as to tilt forward to the 3 ground, for the purpose of scraping up the earth and loading itself, immediately from the ground, by its own action secondly, in employing an endless, horizontal belt forand.

inthe place of the bottom of the cart body, so arranged and operated by any suitable means that itwill be made to revolve in the proper direction, during the time of loading and unloading the cart, but will not act, while drawingthe cart from place to place, for the purpose of assisting the operations of, loading and dumping; thirdly, in the combined arrangement of the cart body, with the fulcrum, or center, on which .it tilts, at a suitable distance above the-revolving axle of the cart, of a driving cog-wheel on said axle, ama pinions placedupon shafts bywhich the endless belt is driven, in such a manner thatthe forward pinion will play into said cog-wheel when thecart body is tilted forward forlojading, and the hind pinion play therein when the cart is tilted backward for dumping, but when in a horizontal position neither pinion will be geared therewith, for the purpose of operating the endless belt when and only when required, sub.-

stantially as hereinafter specified; fourthly,

in the combination and arrangement of the rack on the cart body, the pinion onthe draft frame playing therein, the ratchet hee 0-3 he "p i iiml hsftaandih spring clicks acting on opposite sides of the body may be tilted either way to any position and prevented from moving therefrom in either direction, substantially as hereinafter described.

a The cart body A, is mounted upon a single .pair of wheels C, C, and has its fulcrum, or center, a, on which it tilts, situated some distance above the center of the axle Gr, (as shown in Fig- 2,) sufficient for the purpose hereinafter set forth. The draft frame B, should be placed outsideof the cart body, in order to allow it to be tiltedforwardwithout hinderance, and one side is. most conveniently situated also outside of the adjacent wheel C, so as not to interfere with the icog-wheel r, and pinions s, t, as represented inFig.3. I,

The first main feature of my invention, is the arrangement of the cart body A, so that itinay be tilted forwardqto the ground, to

,gether with the einployment of a suitable Scraper-secured to its fore end, in order to enable the cart body itself. to ather or .scrape the, earth immediately one the ground, and this requires both a conven ent de ice for raising and lo-wering its forward end, and alsothe construction of said end so ias to effectively scrape up and collectthe lea-17th. The first mentioned object accomplish inthe following manner :,A curved rack b, concentric with thefulcrunr the cart body, is secured .tothe side thereof, as

represented. 1 Into this rack 1 plays a pinion, (shown by dotted. l nes at c, n Flg l), whose shaft is secured in proper bearlngs on the frame B, and is operated by'rneans of I a crank d, andon the same shaftis secured a ratchet wheel o,with teeth hOldlIlglll both directions. Into this ratchet wheel two i clicks 6, e, situated on opposite sides thereof,

play, so that one will hold the teeth in one.

direction and the otherinthe other direction. Said clicks are represented as be ng arranged in such a manner as to be. reta ned either against the ratchet wheel or away from it, by means of springs f f', as llflfll cated in Fig. 1. K/Vhen the cart body is to be tilted either way, the clicks are thrown back from the ratchet wheel and the handle d, turned till the action of the plnion 1n the rack brings the cart to. the desired position.

Then both clicks are returnedto the'ratchet wheel and thus hold the cart body--1mmov-- ably in that position. p n above mentioned objects is attained by sen no, The second of; the.

curing, in the proper position, to the fore end of thecart body A, a scraper E, of any suitable form. In the drawings, said scraper is represented as vibrating on pivots H, H, so that it may be turned up in a vertical position, when not used in loading, and thus answer the additional purpose of an end board to the cart body; but when the cart is to be loaded, it is turned down into the position indicated by dark lines in Fig. 4. In this arrangement an arm 9, attached to its pivot H, serves for operating it. But in practice I contemplate also making the scraper E, immovably attached to the cart body in the position last named, since it will hardly be necessary to provide for turning up the scraper, to confine the dirt within the cart body, while transporting it, because the forward portion of the cart will not be so full as to require it.

The second principal feature of my invention consists in the employment of an endless'belt D, as the bottom of the cart body, on which the dirt rests, for the purpose of assisting in the loadin and unloading of the cart, as follows :It is constructed in any ordinary manner, but generally as represented, viz., of a series of wooden lags secured to'two endless chains, which are composed of links provided with suitable projections, or depressions, m, m, &c., on their inner sides, for the purpose of gearing into rag-wheels p, p, on shafts 0, 0, whereby the endless belt is driven. Said shafts and their rag-wheels should be so operated as to respectively drive the endless belt in the direction' indicated bythe arrow in Fig. 2, when the cart-is loading and unloading and cease to move it at all when the cart body is in a 40 horizontal position, andf'the cart ismoving from place to place, either loaded or empty, and when 'thus'arranged the action of the endless belt will evidently tend to convey the dirt collected upon it back into the cart while'loading and out again at the rear when unloading.

The tail-board I, is represented as being hinged onpivots Z, Z, at its upper edge, to the sides of the cart body, and managed by means of arms 2', 7c, and a lever h, so that it can be turned up out of the way, before dumpingthe load, and afterward returned to its vertical position.

' The remaining feature of my invention consists in thearrangement for operating theendless belt D, inthe manner described above,by -means of the axle G, in the act of drawing the cart forward. For this purpose, said axle. is arranged so as to turn 60 with the carriage wheels C, C, and has upon it a cog-wheel a", of suitable size, at one side of the cart body. Upon the ends of the -cog-wheel shafts 0,- 0, are secured two pinions 8, and t, of such size and so situated 86 that neither will take into the cog-wheel r,

when the cart body is in a horizontal position; but that when the cart body is tilted forward to the position, for loading, the pinion s, will become geared into said cog- Wheel, in front, as shown by dark lines in V ion t, will in like manner be geared into said cog-wiheel, in the rear, as shown by red lines in Fig. 4, and be caused to revolve as the cart moves forward, and thus, by operating the endless belt, assist in expelling the g earth from the cart. The distance of the fulcrum a, of the cart body above the axle G, should be such as to bring said pinions alternately into and out of gear, in the above described manner. 35

In order to prevent injury to any part by forcing the cart body against the ground in the act of loading, chains M, M, (or their equivalents,) are attached to the draft frame and cart body, as represented, which are of 90 such a length that they will be straightened, and sustain the resistance of the earth when the scraper is lowered to thedesired depth into the ground; and for the purpose of permitting different depths to which the scraper may enter the earth, said chains may be made adjustable in length.

My improved cart, as above described, is perfectly effectual in its operation, and possesses all the compactness of an ordinary cart so that it can be conveniently employed .in grading rail roads, where ordinary selfloading carts cannot be used.

Having thus fully described my improved self-loading and self-dumping cart, what I claim therein as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is,

1. Arranging the cart body with a scraper on its fore end, and so as to tilt forward to the ground, for the purpose of scraping up the earth and loading itself immediately from the ground, by its own action.

2. I also claim the employment of an end.- less, horizontal belt for, and in the place of, the bottom of the cart body, so arranged and operated, by any suitable means, that it will be made to revolve in the proper direction, during the time of loading and unloading the cart, but will not act, while drawing the cart from place to place; for the purpose of assisting the operations of load- I ing and dumping, substantially as herein set forth.

3. I also claim the combined arrangement of the cart body, with the fulcrum, or center, on which it tilts, (at a suitable distance above the revolving axle of the cart,) the. driving cog-wheel on said axle, and two pinions placed upon the shaft by which the endless belt is drivernin such a manner that and the two clicks, on opposite sides of the ratchet wheel, in such a manner that the cart body may be tilted to any position and immovably held there, substantially as described.

The above specification of my new and improved self-loading and self-dumping cart signed by me this fourth day of March, 1

SANFORD STONE. Witnesses Z. O. ROBBINS, J. S. BROWN. 

